Software Reliability Assessment for Branching Structures: A Hierarchical Approach

Kuball Silke, Nikulin Mikhail, May John, Limnios Nikolaos, Gordon Hughes

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Abstract

An increased use of software systems in safety-critical applications has made the estimation of the software probability of failure on demand (pfd) an issue of great importance. In this paper, estimation of the system pfd is based on the decomposition of the system into a set of sub-systems with independent failure behaviour. Structures which fork and then join again can pose a problem when it comes to defining independently failing sub-systems. A Bayesian approach performed on two levels of granularity is suggested to perform system pfd estimation on such structures.
Translated title of the contributionSoftware Reliability Assessment for Branching Structures: A Hierarchical Approach
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings on the Second International Conference on Mathematical Methods in Reliability, MMR 2000
PublisherUniversity Victor Segalen
Pages655 - 658
Number of pages3
Publication statusPublished - 2000

Bibliographical note

Other page information: 655-658
Conference Proceedings/Title of Journal: Proceedings on the Second International Conference on Mathematical Methods in Reliability, MMR 2000
Other identifier: 1000488

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